Has anyone figured out how to manually change which character is displayed at the main menu? It sometimes seems random, and sometimes it's always the same character. I thought maybe it was in the config file, but I had no luck finding it.

When I first installed I had Jessica most of the time - after I progressed through the game I saw only blade. Now, after the patch, I have an error on startup in the console and a screwed-up menu with *no* character, and huge text [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Need to report that but @ work atm... got screenies of it last night after patching. I'm guessing I could be the only one, since I see no other mentions of odd menu behaviour... meh [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I think as you progress through the game it chooses the character that is displayed. Then when you beat it, it would just randomly choose. I haven't been able to beat it yet to test that theory though.

This was bothering me also so I went looking into the config and checked the console upon loading of the menu/game.

This is what I have seen for various characters:

Spawn server background* and * being 01-04 when you check the console, this command does not work though and it is very frustrating.

03 is jessica and I just want jessica on the damn menu screen, I am so sick of looking at Radek and JC, seen Elexis once and Jessica first time I loaded the game. I hope someone figures out how to "spawn server background".

wisecode almost got it right, the correct command would be "map_background", which loads the map while still showing the menu items on top of it.

This means that you can right click SiN:Emergence in your Steam games list, choose properties, click "Set launch options" and write "+map_background background01" (without the quotes) if you only want Jessica on your menu.

There are actually backgrounds for 01-06, but it seems that both 05 and 06 show Elexis (altough I can almost swear that it showed me Jessica the first time I loaded 05... weird).

If you really want some control, you could make yourself several shortcuts to start Emergence, each with a different character on the menu. Just ask Steam to create a desktop shortcut for you, and then edit the target line by appending the "+map_background background01", then make another pointing to background02 and so on.

Originally posted by KalZakath:
When I first installed I had Jessica most of the time - after I progressed through the game I saw only blade. Now, after the patch, I have an error on startup in the console and a screwed-up menu with *no* character, and huge text [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Need to report that but @ work atm... got screenies of it last night after patching. I'm guessing I could be the only one, since I see no other mentions of odd menu behaviour... meh [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

He, i have this problem, tooo.
BIG, BIG menue letters and NEVER EVER ANY background characters
displayed. dont know if the patch did alter this, i think it was like this
always for me.